Both of the Galarzas, who live in Arcadia, Fla., were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, authorities said. Border patrol agents said $10,800 in undeclared U.S. currency also was seized.

Manatee rescued in Gulf being nursed to health

CORPUS CHRISTI - Officials were trying to nurse a manatee back to health in an aquarium Thursday, the day after using a net and crane to hoist it from warm waters near a Citgo refinery.

It was the first time one of the endangered animals was rescued by wildlife officials off the Texas coast, far from the warm waters they usually frequent off Florida and Mexico.

"I would say it was in probably critical condition," said Allan Strand, field supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in South Texas.

Strand said the manatee was clinging to a shallow area warmed to about 75 degrees by outflows from a Citgo oil refinery.

Three die in nose-dive plane crash on King Ranch

NORIAS - A pilot and two passengers were killed when their small plane nose-dived into South Texas' King Ranch shortly after taking flight, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board said.

A Department of Public Safety spokeswoman in Corpus Christi identified the victims as 26-year-old Michael Joe Smith of Jacksonville and John Gartman, 14, and Robert Loughmiller, 16, both of New Summerfield.